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Stickies
What is Stickies?
Stickies is a PC utility I wrote to try to cut down on the number of
yellow notes I was leaving stuck to my monitor. It is a computerised version of those notes.
The design goal behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. Stickies will not mess with
your system files, or write to the registry. Stickies stores information in a single text-based
ini file.
Stickies will never support animated dancing figures, or play "Greensleeves".
They are instead yellow rectangular windows onto which you can put some text notes.
Once created, they will stay on screen until you take them away. Just like a
real sticky piece of paper.
Main features:
- Once on screen, stickies will remain where placed until closed, even through reboots
- Stickies appearance can be customised; fonts, colours and buttons may be changed, and styles saved.
Stickies can be resized.
- Stickies can store text or images
- Stickies can snap to each other and to the sides of the screen to keep them neatly lined up
- Stickies can be attached to a web site, document or folder so they only show when it's on screen
- Stickies can be transferred from one machine to another either over a TCP/IP
network connection, or by using an SMTP mail server or MAPI client:
- Hierarchical friends list, which may be automatically transferred from other friends
- Play a sound file on receive
- Signature for transmitted or emailed stickies
- Favourite friends, and custom lists can be made
- Stickies can be hidden for a certain period, until a specified date and time, or to wake
every day, week or month, to act as reminders.
- Stickies can have alarms set to ensure you notice them at a point you choose
- International language, Unicode and RTL text support
- Stickies works with Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Stickies is small and simple, it writes to a single text file, and does not alter the registry
- AD network administrators can use Group Policy to control settings
- API to allow integration with other applications
- ...and Stickies is completely free!
Accolades
Since I made Stickies available on the web, some people have been kind enough to
write to me saying nice things about it:
- This is for everyone who has an affection for good sticky notes programs. We think Stickies
is the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the custom deluxe, the coupe de ville of
the sticky world of sticky notes. And it's sticky world out there.
(Information Avenue)
- I've just downloaded Stickies, and wanted to let you know that I'm delighted! After
wading through numerous other [yellow] note style programs, to-do list aps and other
similar utilities, it is such a pleasure to find Stickies! It it so simple yet powerful,
has useful features rather than gimmicks, and, of course, it's wonderfully free! (Andy Nix)
- Stickies must be the most efficient, simple, small, compact, fast, useful program I have EVER
installed :) (Martin Cleaver)
- Downloaded your excellent program the other day. It's great to find something so elegant and
effective in this monolithic software era. (Andrew Fung)
- Stickies is an intuitive, easy-to-use, valuable utility; [and] after reading the Reference Guide,
Stickies has shown itself to be the most powerful utility I have ever used and has become
indispensable for daily use. (Sam Dworkis)
- ...this time to thank you and commend you for the work ethic you so willingly demonstrate in
support of your wonderful Stickies product...I can't think of any other software product, be
it freeware, shareware, or pay to use that supports its users the way you do. (Dick Berman)
- It's so rare to come across a piece of software in the Windows world that's well written and
functional throughout that's freeware. This is a professional piece of software that really
works well. (Steve Chen)
- I have tested nearly 20 of these sticky note programs, but yours seems to be the best of all
for my purposes. Thank you for the great work you have done! (Steffen Neumann)
- I dont think Ive ever used free software with such a high degree of professionalism and breadth
of functionality, so I just wanted to say "Thank you" for this great product (Sue Miller)
- Stickies is beautifully implemented, well-documented and, astonishingly, it's free. We think
you'll love it. (PC Advisor, August 2003)
- I thought I would never begin to use desktop yellow notes until I found Stickies! (Jari Lehtonen)
- Stickies is the only software that I ever wanted to marry. (Peter Oliphant)
I know of users in Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil,
Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, The Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece,
Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Micronesia, Morocco,
Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Republic of the Congo, Romania, Russia, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenija, South Africa, Solomon Islands, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, United Arab Emirates,
the UK, the US, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Zambia.
From the volume of mail I get I would guess there are tens of thousands of users. If you, or anyone else you know uses Stickies,
and lives in another country to those listed above, I'd love to hear from you to add to the list!
Stickies has the ability to support some other languages for the menus and dialog than English. However, as
I don't speak other languages, I need help to translate the English language in Stickies!
If you think you might be able to help translate around two hundred words and phrases, please
drop me a line. Unfortunately, it's not natively able to support languages for the interface with character sets much
larger than English, such as Japanese, Chinese or Hindi.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to:
Alan Dobson for the hours of help he's given me.
Chris Maunder for his Trayicon Wizard, DateTimeCtrl wrapper class and CHyperLink.
Vojtech Lukosik for code to alter font sizes.
Jason Barnaby for general advice and help.
Jeroen Clarysse for code to do simple text-only printing.
Wes Clyburn for code to send an SMTP mail
Rob Manderson by way of CodeGuru for sample MAPI code.
Gonzalo Loguzzo for the default skin for v5.1a
John Fitzgibbon for the flag images used on the download page
Tiago Marques for design consulting
Cyotec Systems for base64 encoding routines
Miquel Pons and Francesc Fernndez for Catalan translation
Yu-Wei Chang, daviking222 and Peter Yuen for Chinese translation
Hasan Osmanagić for Croatian translation
Filip Veverka and Tomš Pekrek for Czech translation
Martin van Es, Joris Drenth, Piet van Hees, Dirk Goossens and Rob Jongejan for Dutch translation
Carsten Hansen and Peter Dragonetti for Danish translation
Thierry Dulait, Eyael, Gwnal Kergadallan and utopya for French translation
Michael Ross, Andreas Poehlmann and Sascha Mrowka for German translation
Giorgos Kostopoulos, Nikos Tzovaridis and John Papadopoulos (Ιωάννης
Παπαδόπουλος) for Greek translation
Daniel Cohen Gindi for Hebrew translation, and help with RTL reading order code
Ron Vollach for Hebrew translation
Jozsef Tamas Herczeg and Balzs Zoltn for Hungarian translation
Eddy Tlessh for Indonesian translation
yayo (Roberto Correzzola) for Italian translation
Mitsuhiro Yoshida for Japanese translation
Seunghoe Yang for Korean translation
Piotr Murawski, Rafal Lampe and Sebastian Karwala for Polish translation
Eneida Gaspar for Portuguese (Brazilian) translation
Pedro Lino and Jos Carlos for Portuguese (standard) translation
Mrgrit-Miric Georgescu for Romanian translation
Anton Granik, ava3v, Nikolay Komarov, Alexandr Perebeinos and Alexiz Kadev for Russian translation
Raul Bianchi Lastra, Christian Hess Araya and Mario Villar for Spanish translation
Martin Samuelsson for Swedish translation
Kuddusi Demir, Kenan Balamir and Emre zcan EYIZ for Turkish translation
Igor Soyer for Ukrainian translation
Gwyndaf Hughes for Welsh translation
Contact
If you have any ideas or suggestions for Stickies, or (perish the thought!) find a
bug, please get in touch! I try to reply to everyone who writes to me.
If you plan to review, or write a piece about Stickies in either an on-line or hard copy publication, I'd
appreciate you dropping me a note to let me know! You're quite welcome to do so, but I'd just like to be
able to grab a copy of your article.
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